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    This plugin enables the creation of Grails applications that will run without (outside of) a servlet/webapp container or a J(2)EE Application Server.
It allows:
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<li>To start long running Grails (batch) processes;</li>
<li>To embed Grails in any regular Java application, container or server.</li>
</ul><p class="paragraph"/>The created application can use all non-servlet specific parts of a Grails application, like:
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<li>GORM/Hibernate support;</li>
<li>Dependency Injection through Spring Framework;</li>
<li>Transactional service layer;</li>
<li>Grails Plugins (provided that the plugin does not depend of a servlet container or webapp environment to run - For example, quartz plugin).</li>
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